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Thread #168020 Message #4061210
Posted By: Donuel
24-Jun-20 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black Lives Matter - change on the way?
Subject: RE: BS: Black Lives Matter - change on the way?
Allow me to introduce George, a black man in his 60's, no not Floyd. He knows exactly why he is racist and he knows why. Which makes him innocent of abject deliberate life taking hate. But he is angry. He remembers every slur, look and beating. He knows why he was the only one to receive an 'all but dissertation'. He went to his uncle's funeral who was shot by a policeman. Uncle Ben was sitting in his 18 year old Pontiac at a McDonald's drive thru under suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle. The hamburgers for his grand children never made it home. He has trusted a white man or two but has been disappointed too many times to count. When white people talk he hears a language that whites do not hear themselves. George expcts a little change to come his way but knows it will be clawed back later to some unknown degree. Just like Obama followed by Trump.